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1. It has now been 15 years since the word “spam” was invented. To let people know about the occasion, anti-spam groups sent out mass e-mails.

2. An airline in Ireland paid 172 people to fly on one of its planes, in order to meet the minimum passenger requirements at an airport. The passengers also got free in-flight entertainment. I’m assuming the entertainment was making fun of people on the flight who bought tickets.

3. India is going to stop charging people to import crude edible oils. The makers of Twinkies were ecstatic.

4. For the first time, the Army is allowing married couples to live and sleep together in a war zone. But doesn’t that already describe a lot of marriages?

5. The Chinese government said that recent U.S. accusations of spying were groundless and “Cold War thinking”. The message was delivered on the body of a dead Tibetan. “See,” said China, “it’s not a ‘cold’ war.”